Snapshots That Wow!

  • 07th June 2025

Time to retire SEO!

80% of search users, rely on AI summaries at least 40% of the time if not more.

This makes gaming content to have relevant articles showing up in first page of search a lost cause as users don’t want to scroll beyond the summary forget click.

Source: FT

US gave up on manufacturing long before robots!

Barring the blip during world war 2, manufacturing as a %of total US non-farm payrolls has been on a steep decline.

Source: BoFA

Hope data isn’t the new oil!

Given the amount of capex going into data centres, one hopes it isn’t the new oil- facing stagnant demand globally for the past two decades!

Source: Dell’Oro Group

Driver ho gaye nau do gyarah!

Self-driving taxi company Waymo is now doing over 700,000 rides per month in California, up from fewer than 100,000 a year ago.

Source: Charlie Bilello

Delhi, (B)illwalon ka shehar

Post covid, the indexed real estate prices in Delhi have galloped ahead of other metros by a margin. I guess financials had to be ‘engineered’ to ‘generate’ cash for this asset. Pay they rest in ‘solace’.

Source: Kotak Institutional Equities

Naukri ki sakht zaroorat!

Quarterly net headcount additions across listed IT companies has been pretty much non-existent for the past 10 quarters. Urban consumption volume growth is also struggling for 10 quarters as a result.

Source: Kotak Institutional Equities